In the News: 02/03

Study Reveals One In Three Americans Suffers From Arthritis As many as 70 million—one in three —U.S. adults suffer from arthritis or chronic joint symptoms, according to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study confirms that arthritis and other rheumatic conditions comprise the leading cause of disability among adults in the U.S. Worse, according to CDC epidemiologist Dr. Charles Helmick, an aging population, an obesity epidemic, and the country’s…